Coffee and chocolate at risk as global warming threatens plants and animals

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Climate change will halve the habitats of a third of land animal species and
more than half the world’s plants within 70 years unless global warming
rates are reduced, researchers predict.

Reptiles and amphibians are at highest risk, the study published in Nature
Climate Change reported. The largest numbers of plants and animals
were likely to be lost from sub-Saharan Africa, Central America, Amazonia
and Australia. Major losses of plant species were also predicted for North
Africa, Central Asia and southeastern Europe. An estimated 57 per cent of
plants and 34 per cent of animals were likely to lose half